“. . . metadata is one of our most important assets. Hardware and software come and go—sometimes becoming obsolete with alarming rapidity—but high-quality, standards-based, system-independent metadata can be used, reused, migrated, and disseminated in any number of ways, even in ways that we cannot anticipate at this moment . . .”
Introduction to Metadata (Murtha Baca, Ed., 2016, p. v.)
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